Новости за 15.03.2016

Donald Trump's advance toward winning the Republican presidential nomination hits a crucial milestone Tuesday as voters in Florida, Ohio, Illinois, Missouri and North Carolina cast ballots in the first big primaries since violent clashes erupted last week at his campaign rallies.

No political contest in America is susceptible to more hype than the race for the presidency, where winners and losers seem to be crowned by the minute. How many times has a candidate been inevitable or washed up only to see the following week change everything?

It's official: John King Jr. isn't acting anymore. On Monday, the U.S. Senate voted 49 to 40 to confirm him as President Obama's second and final secretary of education. Obama's first education secretary, Arne Duncan, announced he would leave the post in October. Obama chose King, then Duncan's...

It was never meant to be a statement on how Asian American men are portrayed in pop culture, or about how seldom they're seen on the screen.

Belinda Bencic of Switzerland on Monday became the fifth of the top 10 women's seeds to lose early at the BNP Paribas Open, echoing the fluctuation in the world rankings after No. 1 Serena Williams.

Notable recent U.S. acquisitions by Chinese companies

March 2016: AMC Entertainment, which itself had been purchased by China's Dalian Wanda Group in 2012, buys Carmike Cinemas, the fourth-largest U.S. theater chain, for $1.1 billion

Jan. 2016: Dalian Wanda Group buys Burbank production company...

On most nights, he's chasing the other team's marquee players and trying not to be on the wrong side of the highlight reels.

Andy Murray's serve was failing him, and he was struggling with the steady diet of topspin shots he was getting from Argentine left-hander Federico Delbonis in their third-round match at the BNP Paribas Open. Murray, never comfortable on the slow, hard courts here or with the high bounces they...

"Hit the Wall," a play about the 1969 Stonewall Inn riots, and "Mojada: A Medea in Los Angeles," which sets a classic Greek tragedy in Boyle Heights, won the top award Monday night at the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Awards.

Mohamad Saeed Kodaimati had a plan to get his family out of Syria.

In 2014, he was living in the war-torn country and traveling to neighboring Turkey to look for work. When he couldn't find a job, the family decided he would return to the United States, where he had lived as a youngster, to find...

It was a trip that provoked angst in August, seven months before the Clippers would board their charter flight for the first of five stops.

With its Trinity League opener against St. John Bosco set for Wednesday at Angel Stadium, No. 1-ranked JSerra didn't lose focus and ended up with a split of its doubleheader on Monday against preseason No. 1 Huntington Beach.

UCLA has a basketball team taking high expectations into the NCAA tournament. Its 10th-ranked women's team.

Here's the burning question for the day, or really for the rest of the regular season, with less than a month to go.Say Washington Capitals goaltender Braden Holtby manages to win 44 games this season — he needs three to tie the victory total by Montreal goalie Carey Price last season, when he...

In what could be a watershed moment in the debate about the long-term effects of head injuries in the nation's most popular sport, the NFL's top health and safety executive acknowledged Monday for the first time that there is a connection between football-related brain trauma and a degenerative...

C.J. Wilson said his surgically repaired throwing elbow feels "great," but the adjustments he made to compensate for the injury have led to a shoulder problem that could knock the Angels left-hander out for the first month of this season, maybe more.

NEXT UP

CLIPPERS AT SAN ANTONIO SPURS

When: Tuesday, 5:30 p.m. PDT.

Where: AT&T Center.

On the air: TV: Prime; Radio: 980.

Records: Clippers 42-23; Spurs 56-10.

Record vs. Spurs: 1-1.

Update: San Antonio has won all 32 of its home games this season. The Spurs defeated the Clippers, 115-107, in...

Two aides at Los Angeles City Hall were arrested over the weekend on suspicion of driving under the influence, authorities said.

The pride of Santa Fe High and Compton, Joey Davis, finished his collegiate wrestling career unbeaten and with a fourth consecutive NCAA title this past weekend.

A federal civil rights lawsuit filed Monday accused the city of Los Angeles of endangering homeless people by seizing and destroying their tents and bedding and then releasing them from jail into the cold without protection.

Two women are suing the South Pasadena Unified School District, alleging that as students they were sexually abused because the district was negligent.

Not long after the Kings' Jonathan Quick completed his 41st career shutout — a 5-0 victory over the Chicago Blackhawks on Monday night — the goalie swiftly paid homage to one of the two men he moved past to get the record for U.S.-born goalies.

SERIES

NCIS The hit drama airs its 300th episode with Taye Diggs guest starring as the hospitalized sole survivor of an attack on a special ops team in Iraq. Mark Harmon stars with guest star Laura San Giacomo. 8 p.m. CBS

The Flash Barry (Grant Gustin) and company try to locate Zoom on the alternate...

For USC's basketball team, success has not been sweet. It tastes a little earthy and a tad gritty — a bit like eating dirt, some players say.

Chino Hills sold out its allotment of 1,300 tickets on Monday for the Open Division Southern California Regional semifinal game against Foothills Christian on Tuesday at Ontario Colony, Athletic Director Phil Garcia said.